I think this cake's very existence is fail even IF it had "brought" spelt correctly on it... I fail to see... WHY this cake was made AT ALL. Huh? It... doesn't make sense! Someone eat this atrocity of fail! Why is art being "broght" to Yahoo in such a plain and bland way? (Is blank the new art?)

Maybe the decorator thought it was part of a prophecy. "Art will be brought a craptacular cake....and Art will rain down his vengeance upon the wreckerators."No, I'm really stretching...there's just no excuse for this. Anyway the only guy named Art I know collects Star Wars figures and has no friends apart from them, so he's hardly set for world domination.

Given the season, I'm going to go with this being a congratulatory cake for a kid who just got into either Yale or Brigham Young - both use the white "Y" on the blue background. Poor kid. That kind of accomplishment deserves so much better!

this almost makes more sense as the BYU logo. (You can see it here)Those of us living in Utah, especally the Provo area have had to put up with awful slogans for the past few years. "Art will be broght" might actually be an improvement.

wv: insolv. The mystery of what this cake was supposed to be is insolv-able.

I just assumed it was from a Provo bakery, where the bYu is located and the decorator was a product of our fine Utah public school system. But Yahoo, it's from another part of the country where they have bad spelling and density issues too.

Oh my. I am with Regina today. I so did not get this at first (sorry, it's been a long day!) Before you judge, I knew it was wrong. Then I read the comments and it was like, duh, now I know WHY it is wrong!*walking away, hanging my head in shame ...*

This reminds me of a very depressing engraving mistake I saw on a friend's gift. The brought in the name and date of birth of their baby on a sheet of paper to be engraved on two silver cups. Rather than writing the information down on a designated work order a worker just wrote "see sheet" on the order and put the paper in the bag with the cups. Guess what they engraved...

DUH! What happened is the person who ordered the cake couldn't spell. They 1/2 assed the order, NOT bringing the artwork for the cake and made a note to the equally stupid cake-making person. Instead of the frosting-putter-onner CALLING about the missing artwork, they just figured to go with what they felt. Not only was it SUPER poor spelling, it was also HORRID customer service!

The publishing company that I work for has a new marketing partnership with Yahoo, and this cake was ordered to celebrate it. It was supposed to have the Yahoo logo and we were supposed to supply the Publisher's logo!

So, the person who claims to have been at this event is lying, as I actually was at the event.

Yahoo was sponsoring a university event (not BYU, that Y was supposed to be a Yahoo! logo...) I don't think they actually ordered the cake even; that's normally handled by us. However, the mix-up was basically as described, the person taking the order didn't understand that "Art will be brought" means that someone is dropping off a graphic later.

The brief story behind this cake is described where I originally posted this photo I took on my cell phone: http://www.flickr.com/photos/drashid/3298752279

Basically, it was a Carnegie Mellon University event Sponsored by Yahoo! for a "Smiley" anniversary celebration I believe (Scott Fahlman, a professor at CMU is credited with the first smiley emoticon). They didn't say what the art that was to be brought would have been, I assume a smiley face as there were small smiley faces on all the other desserts at the event.

I'm not sure what cake service CMU uses, but they had another cake botched a couple weeks later...though not as amazingly as this one. But hey, it tasted fine...not that graduate students are picky about free food...

My, oh my....this is just the lamest excuse I have ever read....I actually know the story behind this cake!

The publishing company that I work for has a new marketing partnership with Yahoo, and this cake was ordered to celebrate it. It was supposed to have the Yahoo logo and we were supposed to supply the Publisher's logo!

The news never made it to the decorator, and this is the outcome!

It was a joke around here for WEEKS.

I think that--because Yahoo! is such a huge company and a decorator who can't even spell the word "brought" had to decorate a cake is assigned to do the task is ridiculous! It maybe a big joke in your place but that's a big slap on the face of Yahoo! if your Publishing Company indeed have a new Marketing partnership with Yahoo!

It makes me wonder , why did that cake even make it out of the baking/decorating area..into the display counter?

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